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Subject to punishment; appropriate for punishment.

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Littering in this area is punishable by a fine of up to $100.

My regret is that it is not punishable by law.

The defence was that the murder was a political offence, and therefore not punishable as an ordinary case of assassination for personal motives.

In either case it was an offence punishable by fines at discretion.

Clerks were punishable only in the court Christian, except in cases of grave crimes such as murder, mutilation (Fournier, p. 72), and cases called " royal cases " (vide infra).

Hungary and Sweden accepted it, and so finally did Denmark, where at first it was rejected, and its publication made a crime punishable by death.

When then on July 21 Draskovic was murdered by a young Bosnian Communist, Parliament resolved on reprisals, and io days later passed by 190 to 54 laws of extraordinary severity for "the Defence of the State," terrorist agitation being made punishable by death, prolonged penal servitude or heavy fines.

A statute of 1553 made the breaking or defacing of an altar, crucifix or cross in any church, chapel or churchyard punishable with three months' imprisonment on conviction before two justices, the imprisonment to be continued unless the offender entered into surety for good behaviour at quarter sessions.

Sacrilege was made a crime punishable by death, and the ministry were preparing a law to alter the law of equal inheritance, and thus create anew the great estates.

In time of peace his power was little more than that of the responsible minister of a constitutional republic; but in time of warfare he was a dictator, and disobedience to his orders in the field was punishable by death.

Under its provisions it is a punishable offence " to break or injure a submarine cable wilfully or by culpable negligence in such manner as might interrupt or obstruct telegraphic communication either wholly or partially, such punishment being without prejudice to any civil action for damages.

After the spread of Christianity among the Romans, however, foeticide became equally criminal with the murder of an adult, and the barbarian hordes which afterwards overran the empire also treated the offence as a crime punishable with death.

Whatever may have been the exact view taken by the common law, the offence was made statutory by an act of 1803, making the attempt to cause the miscarriage of a woman, not being, or not being proved, to be quick with child, a felony, punishable with fine, imprisonment, whipping or transportation for any term not exceeding fourteen years.

Should the woman have proved to have quickened, the attempt was punishable with death.

In all the countries of Europe the causing of abortion is now punishable with more or less lengthy terms of imprisonment.

In most states not only is the person who causes the abortion punishable, but also any one who supplies any drug or instrument for the purpose.

These courts are competent to try cases of felony punishable with a term of imprisonment not exceeding five years.

In 1876 Eismarck proposed to introduce into the Criminal Code a clause making it an offence punishable with two years imprisonment to attack in print the family, property, universal military service, or other foundation of public order, in a manner which undermined morality, feeling for law, or the love of the Fatherland.

Capital punishment was confined to treason and murder; the former was not to be attended by corruption of blood, drawing, or quartering; all other felonies were made punishable by confinement and hard labour, save a few to which was applied, against Jefferson's desire, the principle of retaliation.

Whoever kills, captures or injures an elephant, or attempts to do so,, without a licence, is punishable by a fine of 500 rupees for the first offence; and a similar fine, together with six months imprisonment, for a second offence.

The desertion of a wife or of children under fifteen years of age is a felony punishable with imprisonment for not more than three years nor less than one year.

The causes for an absolute divorce are adultery; impotency; desertion for three years; a sentence to confinement in the penitentiary; a conviction of an infamous offence before marriage unknown to the other; or, if one of the parties is charged with an offence punishable with death or confinement in the penitentiary, and has been a fugitive from justice for two years; pregnancy of the wife before marriage unknown to the husband, or the wife's being a prostitute before marriage unknown to the husband.

Writs of error in cases punishable with death are returnable only to the court of errors and appeals.

This Victor is creating vampires without permission, a crime punishable by death.

It became a punishable offense to report sick with sunburn.

Disclosing the identity of a covert intelligence operative is a violation of federal law punishable by up to 10 years in jail.

They must first convince a Swiss judge that you have committed a serious crime punishable by the Swiss Penal Code.

Liberty has become a crime punishable by death, and the majority of the population lives in a drug-induced state of docility.

Speeches ' inciting people to hatred or contempt ' of the king or the government became punishable by death.

In penal cases its jurisdiction extends to all offences of the class known as dClitsoffences punishable by a more serious penalty than the contraventions dealt with by the juge de paix, but not entailing such heavy penalties as the code applies to crimes, with which the assize courts (see below) deal.

Accordingly, in the session of 1562-1563, Cecil forced upon an unwilling parliament "a politic ordinance on fish eating," by which the eating of flesh on fast days was made punishable by a fine of three pounds or three months' imprisonment, one meat dish being allowed on Wednesdays on condition that three fish dishes were present on the table.

Woolston (1728) the court declared that they would not suffer it to be debated whether to write against Christianity in general was not an offence punishable in the temporal courts at common law, but they did not intend to include disputes between learned men on particular controverted points.

Now by the Malicious Damage Act 1861 the unlawful and malicious destroying or damaging any picture, statue, monument or other memorial of the dead, painted glass or other monument or work of art, in any church, chapel, meeting-place or other place of divine worship is a misdemeanour punishable by imprisonment for six months, and in the case of a male under the age of sixteen years with whipping.

From the suffrage and the holding of office are excluded idiots and insane persons and all those who have been convicted of treason, embezzlement, malfeasance in office, bribery or larceny, or any crime involving moral turpitude and punishable under the laws of the state by imprisonment in the penitentiary - this last disqualification, however, is removable by a pardon for the offence.

Failure to give information of death, or to comply with the registrar's requisitions, entails a penalty not exceeding forty shillings, and making false statements or certificates, or forging or falsifying them, is punishable either summarily within six months, or on indictment within three years of the offence.

Such assistance is punishable on conviction by a maximum of 14 years ' imprisonment or a fine or both.

Failure to do so is punishable as contempt of court.

Failure to attend jury service is a punishable offense.

Even the presence of an oil sheen is punishable under federal law.

Failure to comply is an offense punishable with two years imprisonment.

As for anger, it is a murderous disease in its excess, but murder is punishable with death.

The Chinese government has set up 33 panda reserves to protect these beautiful animals and made poaching them punishable with 20 years in prison.

Failure to comply with an order would be a contempt of court, punishable by imprisonment or a fine.

The Japanese had always taken a very serious view of stealing, which could be punishable by death even in their own army.

In practice this effects people who have been convicted of a criminal offense which is punishable by a prison sentence.

Worse still in Sudan homosexuality is punishable by the death penalty.

No party may interfere in a law suit or in matters of justice; such interference shall be a crime punishable by law.

Failure to hand over keys This is an offense punishable by 2 years in prison.

I believe he is facing war crimes charges, punishable by death.

Many states classify all identity theft related crimes as felonies, which can be punishable by serious prison time.

Today, this is no longer a punishable crime.